Microbial Community Responses to Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Pre-Spill Background Assessment
Implementing Organization
Louisiana State University
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$179,937
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)
Funding Program
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative GoMRI Grant Program
Details
Project Category
Science
Project Actions
Environmental Research
Targeted Resources
Human and/or Institutional Capacity
Project Description
This project leverages a set of samples obtained in March, 2010 prior to the DWH oil spill to determine the composition and structure of bacterial communities in the northern Gulf of Mexico. DNA extracts from bacterioplankton collected along nearshore to off-shore transects and from 2 m to 1700 m depth have been used in PCR amplifications of 16S rRNA genes. Amplification has used a bar-coding protocol to enable high throughput pyrosequencing, resulting in more than 220,000 reads over 44 distinct samples.
Contact
Gary M. King225-578-1901
gking@lsu.edu
Project Website
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